"I look at some of my school friends who never bothered and entered “benefits street”. They have nice local authority houses, cheap rent, subsidised heating and considerably more than me in disposable income each month."
Compared to a combined salary of £195k? Chinny reckon. 🤔

Quorn mince actually works well, I would go with that

This is off the top of my head.

These sorts of inefficiencies happen on quite literally a daily basis. Everybody in the system knows this. Everyone.

Yet what is the government’s diagnosis?

“Juries. They are the problem. Get rid of juries.”

It is absolutely mind-boggling.

14. The government artificially restricting court “sitting days” - effectively closing perfectly usable courtrooms and forcing judges to stay at home, to make a tiny saving on court staff.

This happened regularly under the last government. The new lot are still doing it.

10. Not enough barristers to cover cases. Often - especially in serious, specialised and difficult work such as Rape and Serious Sexual Offences - the CPS will not be able to find an available barrister, due to so many having quit. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrist...

6. The nationwide breakdown of the Crown Court Digital Case System and/or Common Platform.

Happens pretty much weekly. All cases are now digital. When the abysmal infrastructure (which has been in Beta for years) freezes or breaks, everything grinds to a standstill.

1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚

A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.

Trials every day in every court are affected.

It is my DREAM to retire. Worry I might drop dead before I get there.

Everything about work has got worse over decades from business not sharing success via pay rises, reduction in benefits including pensions, “headcount reductions”, lack of stability increased workloads etc and you want 66 year olds to have the grind mindset?